The NetBeans community recently released the beta version of the latest incarnation of its persistently popular open source IDE. NetBeans 6.5 is a major update of version 6.1, incorporating a new ...

The NetBeans IDE allows you to manage Java programs more easily than is possible using a basic text editor. One of its strengths is its code-formatting tools. These tools allow you to format and ...

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Software developers are creatures of habit, so when it comes to getting them to change their ways, like moving away from Eclipse or IntelliJ and taking the time to download the latest NetBeans' IDE, ...

Eclipse and NetBeans are the most popular IDEs (Integrated Development Environments). Most of us agree these two are widely used in the programming world, especially while working on Java. If you ...

In this blog entry, I will briefly cover how to use code folding in NetBeans 6.1 while attempting to make a case for code folding in the correct situations. I agree that we all need to give and take a ...

NetBeans is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE), tooling platform, and application framework. It's written in Java and is primarily for creating Java programs. It also, however, ...

In the Java development community, there are two main Integrated Development Environments (IDEs): Eclipse, which is associated with IBM and NetBeans which is a Sun/Oracle environment. Given the ...

The Netbeans Java environment lets you create a connection to a database and retrieve records from the database to display in your Java forms. You can also add records to the tables using the Netbeans ...

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community last week announced the general availability of the latest version of the free, open-source NetBeans IDE. NetBeans 5.5 comes with new features aimed at ...

Sun Microsystems to support users of NetBeans IDE 5, the open-source tool which sports a new GUI-building program. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies.